VOLUME 5, NUMBER 1, 2005

CONTENTS

• Overcoming Demand Management Problems: The Scope for Improving Reactive 
  and Proactive Supply Management in the UK Health Service
  A. Cox, D. Chicks and and P. Ireland

• Environmentally Preferable Purchasing: Who Is Doing What in the United States?
  J. D. Coggburn and D. Rahm

• E-Procurement Management in State Governments: Diffusion of E-Procurement 
  Practices and Its Determinants
  M. J. Moon

• A Tool for Assessing the Value Contributed by Public Purchasing Departments throughout 
  Various Stages of Competitive Acquisition Processes for Consulting Services
  J. J. Schiele

PRACTITIONERS’ CORNER

• A Note from the Editor: A Challenge to Public Procurement Practitioners
  R. E. Lloyd

• Principles and Practices of Managing a Global Purchase Card Program
  M. A. Colaianni

USEFUL REPRINTS

• Rebuilding Iraq: Fiscal Year 2003 Contract Award Procedures and Management Challenges

BOOK REVIEW

• Introduction to Public Procurement
  W. Lawther

VOLUME 5, NUMBER 2, 2005

CONTENTS

• Improving Organizational Effectiveness through Meaningful Involvement of Municipal Purchasing
  Departments – Case Studies from Ontario Canada
  J. J. Schiele

• Measurement Issues in Performance-Based Logistics
  K. Doerr, I. Lewis and D. R. Eaton

• A Regression Approach for Estimating Procurement Cost
  G. W. Moore and E. D. White III

• Competence Requirements for Managing Supply in Interorganizational Networks
  L. Knight, C. Harland, H. Walker and R. Sutton

PRACTITIONERS’ CORNER

• Staff Assistance Visit: Bridging the Gap between Headquarters and the Operational Contracting Officer
  B. Piper

USEFUL REPRINTS

• Best Practices: Using Spend Analysis to Help Agencies Take a More Strategic Approach to Procurement
  U. S. Government Accountability Office

BOOK REVIEW

• Planning, Scheduling and Requirement Analysis
  M. A. Feldheim

VOLUME 5, NUMBER 3, 2005

INSIDE COVER 

CONTENTS

• How Many Vendors Does It Take to Screw Down a Price? A Primer
  on Competition
  J. M. Keisler and W. A. Buehring

SYMPOSIUM

• Symposium on E-Procurement in Public Sector: Part I
  A. Ancarani

• Symposium Introduction
  A. Ancarani

• The E-Procurement Experience in Italian Universities
  P. Barbieri and A. Zanoni

• Analysis of Public E-Procurement Web Site Accessibility
  G. Bruno, E. Esposito, M. Mastroianni and D. Vellutino

• Key Issues in E-Procurement: Procurement Implementation 
  and Operation in The Public Sector
  S. R. Croom and A. Brandon-Jones

PRACTITIONERS’ CORNER

• Strategic Procurement in the Public Sector: A Mask for
  Financial and Administrative Policy
  D. Matthews

USEFUL REPRINTS

• Competitive Sourcing: Greater Emphasis Needed on Increasing Efficiency And Improving Performance
  U. S. Government Accountability Office

BOOK REVIEW

• Unleashing Change: A Study of Organizational Renewal in Government
  A. J. Sementelli